Or spend $8 for a snubber and install it. Eliminates the potential
for frying the diode pack.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On 4 Aug 2004 09:42:22 -0500, Dave wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, most battery switches are of the "make before break"
type, so unless the switching is being done some other way it shouldn't
be a
problem.
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That's the theory but in actual practice "hot switching" has probably
caused more alternator failures than any other reason. My
recommendation is not to do it at all, and if absolutely necessary,
only at idle speed.